The 'Gold Rats' In Congress
When it comes to value of congressional Web sites, the Congressional Management Foundation will only go so far in its criticism.
As noted in yesterday morning's edition of Technology Daily, the group gave most lawmakers D's for their online presence. It named the lawmakers with the best sites but stopped short of calling out those who have the worst. "It is not our mission to shame people into change," project manager and co-author Tim Hysom said in an interview.
But that's OK because Ben Pershing, who writes the Capitol Briefing blog for The Washington Post, is happy to take the task upon himself -- and his readers. In writing about the foundation's "Gold Mouse" awards yesterday, Pershing invited readers to publicly name the "Gold Rats" who haven't a clue about how to use the Web.
There are no nominations yet, but Republican new media consultant David All, who used to work for Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., had this to say:
They're equally bad on both sides of the aisle. To be fair, most of the members aren't personally to blame for such bad Web sites, but it's in fact the byproduct of the outdated congressional rules which limit a member's use of the Web. In other words, it's against the "rules" to post YouTube videos.
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